A home video allegedly taken just before Christmas during a late-night flight appears to show a UFO flying next to the plane. The video, posted to YouTube by a man named Mauricio Ruiz, has the Internet buzzing.

Not from that angle. (Says the optical engineer after doing some quickie ray tracing in his head.) For that to be something inside the cabin, the source would have to be in the seat back in front of photographer.

Old airline passenger me says there are TWO surfaces doing the reflecting ~ the inner safety screen ~ it's plastic, and has a different index of refraction than the outer window ~ it's super duper glass. Think hard and you can unbundle the two images in your mind.

You'd be able to see this from the A seat looking toward the F window seat

If it were something within the cabin, you would see 2 images of it; one from the interior pane and one from the exterior pressure window. There are no 2nd ghost images of any of the object’s features. The clincher is when he places his hand next to the window. You see the image of the object superimposed on the image of his hand. At that moment, the source would have to be in the palm of his hand. It clearly isn’t something inside the aircraft.

If it were something within the cabin, you would see 2 images of it; one from the interior pane and one from the exterior pressure window. There are no 2nd ghost images of any of the objects features. The clincher is when he places his hand next to the window. You see the image of the object superimposed on the image of his hand. At that moment, the source would have to be in the palm of his hand. It clearly isnt something inside the aircraft.

TRUE. However, answer this. Why does it seem that in both segments, the 'object' is in a fixed position w/regards to the window ? If the 'object' were outside the plane, you would expect it to move some within the perimeter of the window.

Note also that in this video there were two different 'views' of an 'object'. The first one had the look of an artificial source. The second left me clueless.

Both seemed to actually be a gimmick to make money off YOUTUBE VIDEOS.

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posted on 12/30/2012 7:25:10 PM PST
by UCANSEE2
( If you think I'm crazy, just wait until you talk to my invisible friend.)

The image does move relative to the window frame, as it would whether the source were inside the aircraft or outside of it. However, without any reference images such as stars visible, we cannot tell whether the apparent movement is consistent with a source dozens or hundreds of feet away from the camera. The camera’s autofocus system doesn’t seem to be having any trouble with the image, which argues for something relatively close; a distance similar to the the distance to the window frame (i.e. inside the cabin).

But as I said before, the guy puts his hand next to the window so that the image is superimposed on the image of his hand. This wouldn’t be possible for a source inside the aircraft.

because the person filming KNOWS the trick of reflections being used to fake a video, and shows it’s not a reflection in the window by moving his hand such that you can see the reflection overlapping the image.

To demonstrate this activity DURING the filming means you are thinking ahead about making the video seem realistic.

Why does it seem that in both segments, the 'object' is in a fixed position w/regards to the window ?

I think it is some kind of clearance/marker light on the wing. If you look right at 1:00 or 1:01 there's a blink of the top AC light. It shows the wing briefly and it looks like this light is right on the leading edge.

For my High School Senior Term Paper—worth as much as a midterm exam-in 1972, I contrived seeing a UFO, filled out the standard “First Encounter” official USAF Project Blue Book forms for such “sightings” and then included copies of the documents and the usual Air Force response (a form letter assuring me that I was not nuts and that they may get back to me) in my academic submission...after adding a few fuzzy pics of flying hubcaps and blurry cumulus cloud formations the flim flamm was a big hit with the High School staff

...I received an A plus plus and the grade lifted my lazy underachiever borderline failure school history to about damn time he showed some effort passing...odd thing, not long after my term paper, Project Blue Book, after three decades and half a billion dollars spent ended with the official conclusion being that everyone was either nuts or seeing things.

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posted on 12/31/2012 9:48:15 AM PST
by Happy Rain
("Outlawing guns because of Adam Lanza would be like outlawing free speech because of Bill Maher.")

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